Does popular science deny the existence of a soul?

If so, what separates us from a common machine? People sometimes say that spiritual belief is a hindrance to 'scientific progress', but where can that progress really take us if not into the world of 'Robo Sapiens', as it were? I'm not saying that popular Religion deals with the soul in a more favorable way, but denying its existence all together makes us no better than mere machines reacting to a biological stimulus, and progress coming from that doesn't offer much in terms of aesthetic value.Does popular science deny the existence of a soul?
Scientists and biologists haven't studied the brain enough to determine whether there's a soul.



Until we can study every function of the body completely, we can't test whether some form of energy exists within us to prove there's a soul.



And if a soul does exists, we have no way to determine where in the body it exists, if it's all around the body, and whether it's released when a human dies.



Science doesn't deny a soul, but it doesn't accept it into science since it can't be tested. Perhaps someday in the future they'll be able to test the presence of a soul but until then science can't say a soul exists and back that statement up with proof.



I believe there are souls, but as of right now science can't prove that.
What do you mean by soul?Does popular science deny the existence of a soul?
self awareness.Does popular science deny the existence of a soul?
Science makes no comment on it one way or the other, since there is no testable hypothesis for it, around which to design experiments. Why do people insist on pushing the notion that "science" says this or that, as if it were an entity, rather than a methodology.
Just because typical human arrogance forces us to think we're special, doesn't mean we are.
I agree with you. Maybe science will prove that there is a God some day.
1) Life is nondeterministic.

2) Humans are sentient.
People who say that spiritual belief is a hindrance to 'scientific progress' are usually (but not always) teenage trolls. Most of the Nobel prize winners are Christian and Jews. Scientists are clearly a 'soulful' bunch!
Well, there either is a soul or there isn't.



If there isn't, don't you want to know that there isn't?



I don't think popular science denies it at the moment, but writers like Susan Blackmore certainly do. You could read her work for a good answer to your query.
Such questions are beyond the realm of science. It is at this date not provable through the scientific method. Science has no business making declarations on matters of philosophy or religion and good scientists don't try.